Religion: Ramadan

. . Allah Akbar . . . God is great. . . . The Imam droned prayers, snatches
from the Koran in Arabic, sitting cross-legged near his pulpit in a long
green robe and a green fez (signifying that he has made the pilgrimage
to Mecca). Squatting on prayer rugs and matting, his congregation droned
with him, sometimes leaning forward, touching their Korans with their
foreheads. For two hours one evening last week, these prayers sounded
in a brick building in Brooklyn, only full-fledged Moslem mosque in the
U. S. It was the...